[HH] Raspberry Pi

[Drew Van Zandt]

If it passes CE it has been through all the testing needed for FCC.

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Drew Van Zandt
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com>wrote:

> Raspberry Pi update...
>
> A few weeks back they posted pricing and delivery charges to various
> countries. The price, with delivery, is $40 for the US (via Newark).
>
> Programming the Raspberry Pi webinar with Eben, April 4
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/840
>
>  Eben's hosting this...webinar with Element 14 on April 4 at...10am
>  EST. The subject matter will suit beginners, and should be pretty
>  interesting for those of you who are hardened hackers too. He'll be
>  showing you how to:
>    * download and install the Operating System on the SD card
>    * run the boot up script
>    * use the script editor and begin to create applications using the
>  presupplied Python scripts
>  ...you'll need to sign up for the event at Element 14´s website. ...a
>  video of the webinar will be made available for those of you who can't
>  attend...
>
>
> There is also a another product delay, this time due to CE compliance.
> They thought, like the BeagleBoard, they could sell the uncased board to
> developers and defer compliance testing until later in the year when
> they release a version in a case.
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/878
>
>  ...we have spoken with BIS this morning, and they have confirmed that,
>  given the volumes involved and the demographic mix of likely users,
>  any development board exemption is not applicable to us; as a result,
>  even the first uncased developer units of Raspberry Pi will require a
>  CE mark prior to sale in the EU.
>  ...
>  The good news is that our first 2,000 boards arrived in the UK on
>  Monday and that we are working to get them CE marked as soon as is
>  humanly possible, in parallel with bringing the remainder of our
>  initial batch into the country.
>  ...
>  On the basis of preliminary measurements, we expect emissions from the
>  uncased product to meet category A requirements comfortably without
>  modification, and possibly to meet the more stringent category B
>  requirements which we had originally expected would require a
>  metalised case.
>
> The posting also shows pictures of stacks of Pi boards and some shots of
> the QA testing performed in China.
>
> Ars covered the compliance testing delay in an article:
>
> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/03/first-batch-of-35-linux-computer-arrives-in-uk-awaiting-ce-compliance-testing.ars
>
> Some more photos of the board and screen shots of it running an Atari
> emulator:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysretrocomputers/sets/72157629550077581/with/6827874250/
>
> And some shots of a "pallet of Pis" fresh from the manufacturer, and the
> relatively small boxes that hold 50 boards:
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/945
>
>
> I guess the bottom line for now is that they are still working through
> compliance testing, and first shipments still sound to be weeks off.
>
> Even if I could have, I don't think I would have bothered pre-ordering.
> At the time, too much was unknown about how US distribution would work.
> Now it seems like it'll be months still before they are stocked locally.
> If they run into similar compliance issues here and need to go for FCC
> testing, it will delay even further, or they may decide it isn't worth
> the cost.
>
>  -Tom
>
>
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